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Steambox is Valve's solution to bring more SteamOs into our houses, through those who want PC that is more powerful than consoles, but less troublesome than PC, especially in terms of DYI.

Does it come packaged with Episode 3?

That would turn them into best-seller and Microsoft will, probably, close itself.

Not interested and kind of hoping it flops and dies out.

PC gaming is strong right now - on PCs - we don't need some other wonky platform screwing up what has returned to being a good thing.

Plus as much as I like Steam I think Valve has enough of a hand in PC gaming as it is.

Steambox is a PC.

And if Valve will kick one not so large soft into bollocks, I wouldn't mind that.

I think the idea of upgradability might miss the whole point of the box. 'PC enthusiasts' might not have any problem upgrading it, but if these are directed towards ordinary people/console audience then they might not know how to upgrade the box anyway. 

As a PC enthusiast I would only buy one if I could salvage it for parts at better prices than buying retail.

I sincerely hope Valve makes this a success. Then consoles would be further weakened and Gamestop can DIE quicker!

Heavenfall,

Did you like me think "Mamma Scans köttbullar!" when you saw Scan in the companylist? 

I did! And I was equally surprised to see Webhallen on the list.

Pro P.c. here.

Haha I thought so!

Me too. I mean, Webhallen is "just" a retailer that also builds computers. Bet everybody on CES that saw them went: "What is Webhallen?"

But we can wish, can't we?

Seriously, MS has us by the short and curlies. Wouldn't it be nice to have an alternative?

Biggest problem with the steambox imo, is the Linux. It prevents the majority of steam games to be played on the box... Kind of self defeats its own purpose.

I thought steam has linux games now, and the list is growing.

You can be certain they're trying to get as many games as possible to work in linux. Otherwise their SteamOS will not become popular.